Quality of Life Index by City 2015

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Cost of Living Index
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Canberra, Australia 242.2 134.7 69.2 74.3 97.0 4.8 18.6 8.3 -
Ottawa, Canada 223.9 131.0 75.2 67.7 79.9 5.7 33.9 18.1 -
Zurich, Switzerland 218.5 133.9 80.3 71.3 141.1 8.1 26.4 18.8 -
Frankfurt, Germany 211.0 139.6 70.0 63.1 83.5 5.8 27.2 35.8 -
Sacramento, CA, United States 209.0 145.3 49.7 74.3 88.2 2.6 22.5 41.7 -
Denver, CO, United States 203.9 130.1 62.3 83.5 78.6 2.6 52.5 32.4 -
Austin, TX, United States 198.7 136.4 58.6 77.8 78.3 3.9 36.8 43.8 -
Salt Lake City, UT, United States 197.3 137.6 69.7 68.9 69.7 2.9 37.8 53.3 -
Boston, MA, United States 197.3 118.8 58.9 79.6 89.4 3.2 42.1 25.1 -
Munich, Germany 196.9 99.6 85.4 90.6 84.2 13.1 24.5 21.8 -
Calgary, Canada 195.8 118.5 66.8 68.8 89.3 4.8 39.7 24.7 -
Edinburgh, United Kingdom 195.1 96.3 72.0 68.2 91.7 5.6 21.4 14.0 -
Wellington, New Zealand 194.7 99.1 70.3 67.9 100.1 4.7 28.3 12.5 -
Seattle, WA, United States 193.6 124.5 54.0 66.6 90.7 4.1 39.9 23.4 -
Saint Louis, MO, United States 192.3 134.9 27.8 83.3 80.3 2.4 25.2 36.7 -
Trondheim, Norway 192.2 93.4 81.7 86.2 119.9 7.6 19.1 21.8 -
San Diego, CA, United States 191.6 129.6 56.7 69.7 77.3 2.9 48.0 35.1 -
Geneva, Switzerland 189.9 130.2 62.2 60.0 145.2 10.1 17.6 23.8 -
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 189.7 132.8 67.9 75.5 52.2 2.5 22.6 69.9 -
Victoria, Canada 185.1 102.1 56.8 72.0 84.9 6.3 31.8 15.1 -
Melbourne, Australia 183.0 113.4 60.1 75.1 97.0 8.5 36.8 23.3 -
Vienna, Austria 178.3 100.2 69.5 80.8 77.0 13.3 24.9 25.0 -
Chicago, IL, United States 177.5 127.5 39.4 62.9 79.6 3.6 32.5 36.7 -
Copenhagen, Denmark 175.3 96.7 73.2 74.5 105.7 6.8 30.0 28.8 -
Brisbane, Australia 174.1 100.0 61.7 77.8 95.5 6.4 46.6 21.0 -
Stockholm, Sweden 174.1 105.6 54.0 69.4 89.1 11.9 35.6 12.4 -
Edmonton, Canada 172.9 101.8 60.6 76.7 84.9 4.5 45.5 29.0 -
Berlin, Germany 170.6 97.1 67.5 75.0 74.7 7.5 42.0 28.6 -
Tokyo, Japan 170.5 96.8 77.0 85.0 85.4 8.7 44.1 35.1 -
Trieste, Italy 169.5 86.2 82.3 73.5 85.2 5.5 20.0 42.1 -
Perth, Australia 166.8 105.2 55.8 67.8 109.0 7.2 36.6 24.6 -
Glasgow, United Kingdom 166.8 99.3 47.3 91.9 92.8 5.2 47.7 26.2 -
Vancouver, Canada 166.3 94.7 63.4 75.2 90.2 9.6 41.2 20.6 -
Helsinki, Finland 166.3 91.4 64.4 71.4 94.2 10.9 27.0 19.8 -
Amsterdam, Netherlands 164.9 99.6 66.9 64.6 88.2 8.4 27.0 34.2 -
Bristol, United Kingdom 164.9 101.1 62.5 87.8 97.8 13.8 26.3 31.8 -
Adelaide, Australia 164.8 93.8 58.0 62.8 98.9 6.3 26.3 23.4 -
Hamburg, Germany 164.3 98.1 66.7 63.3 81.8 8.5 28.6 32.9 -
Dubai, United Arab Emirates 162.5 106.3 78.4 61.0 70.3 6.3 31.6 55.6 -
Oslo, Norway 162.3 99.0 60.1 73.3 115.4 8.6 30.3 28.0 -
Atlanta, GA, United States 162.2 156.2 40.1 68.5 75.7 2.8 54.0 75.7 -
Los Angeles, CA, United States 161.5 136.9 46.4 65.1 69.4 5.2 45.3 60.9 -
San Francisco, CA, United States 161.3 116.7 56.5 68.3 97.0 8.3 37.3 42.4 -
Toronto, Canada 161.2 103.5 68.3 70.5 81.7 9.0 42.9 38.0 -
Valencia, Spain 160.6 80.6 73.2 80.0 65.4 9.3 23.0 36.6 -
Montreal, Canada 159.8 100.3 63.5 66.1 81.1 5.5 44.2 36.7 -
Sydney, Australia 159.6 104.9 59.2 70.5 100.4 8.8 42.8 31.0 -
Bursa, Turkey 156.7 58.7 83.2 77.0 49.3 4.3 42.4 28.1 -
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 155.9 105.4 86.9 48.0 62.3 5.8 27.7 65.8 -
Auckland, New Zealand 154.6 89.1 53.6 72.3 96.2 6.9 34.8 25.5 -
Regina, Canada 153.3 101.7 58.3 56.6 85.0 5.9 38.7 37.4 -
Phoenix, AZ, United States 152.8 124.9 44.7 64.2 72.3 3.0 28.3 68.1 -
Houston, TX, United States 151.0 121.3 40.8 75.3 89.9 2.7 39.8 60.4 -
Jeddah (Jiddah), Saudi Arabia 150.7 120.6 64.9 49.3 50.6 3.4 34.0 74.3 -
Winnipeg, Canada 149.4 93.8 43.0 66.9 75.7 6.2 34.8 30.2 -
Cape Town, South Africa 146.7 97.7 28.4 77.4 44.0 4.6 46.7 34.6 -
Doha, Qatar 143.5 114.6 78.7 75.0 74.0 8.1 29.3 86.9 -
Pretoria, South Africa 143.0 129.6 23.0 74.1 46.7 2.1 42.6 71.0 -
Gdansk, Poland 140.6 66.3 71.1 63.0 44.4 9.1 26.8 35.0 -
Tallinn, Estonia 139.1 49.4 70.4 71.4 64.8 11.9 23.0 15.6 -
Philadelphia, PA, United States 137.3 110.0 33.9 58.9 88.6 2.9 35.0 51.4 -
Ljubljana, Slovenia 137.0 68.7 69.0 55.1 65.1 10.3 18.8 33.1 -
Seville (Sevilla), Spain 136.0 76.2 70.8 54.8 62.9 9.8 27.4 39.8 -
Prague, Czech Republic 132.3 69.9 67.1 69.2 49.7 11.6 32.5 38.1 -
Miami, FL, United States 131.6 105.6 40.3 61.1 84.2 4.3 59.2 44.8 -
Dublin, Ireland 128.7 88.9 45.4 44.3 95.6 6.9 35.8 30.7 -
Taipei, Taiwan 123.3 84.6 78.7 86.7 55.9 25.8 29.6 51.1 -
Brno, Czech Republic 122.9 64.3 67.5 62.5 49.7 11.2 30.0 41.1 -
Vilnius, Lithuania 120.3 46.9 70.8 70.2 53.9 13.4 31.3 26.6 -
Thessaloniki, Greece 119.5 50.9 67.8 77.1 66.6 10.0 17.0 44.0 -
Porto, Portugal 118.5 59.7 53.4 69.0 55.9 7.3 22.3 43.8 -
Cluj-Napoca, Romania 118.0 44.8 80.6 56.5 42.0 11.6 23.6 37.1 -
New York, NY, United States 117.4 100.0 52.9 46.3 100.0 8.9 39.4 52.8 -
Lisbon, Portugal 116.2 57.7 65.3 64.1 59.5 10.4 39.4 35.2 -
Johannesburg, South Africa 115.7 118.1 17.2 57.0 49.0 2.7 39.9 73.7 -
Seoul, South Korea 115.5 88.6 81.8 71.9 83.7 14.2 34.2 73.2 -
Zagreb, Croatia 112.1 53.9 67.4 63.7 60.3 12.2 30.0 37.8 -
Madrid, Spain 111.9 74.0 64.4 73.3 69.1 11.4 32.1 59.4 -
Brussels, Belgium 111.7 85.3 47.1 73.7 92.8 6.7 21.5 68.0 -
Poznan, Poland 111.5 56.7 74.2 51.7 45.5 10.8 41.2 40.5 -
Warsaw, Poland 111.2 71.1 69.3 58.2 48.0 11.5 36.6 55.1 -
Brasilia, Brazil 111.1 66.9 42.2 48.1 58.7 11.9 20.8 30.5 -
Ahmedabad, India 110.1 66.0 78.0 67.1 27.4 7.0 46.2 70.3 -
Bratislava, Slovakia 109.2 61.8 65.6 53.9 54.4 10.9 32.2 44.9 -
Brasov, Romania 108.4 36.9 73.4 32.6 43.3 11.3 27.5 19.9 -
Manchester, United Kingdom 108.1 71.5 49.9 70.4 91.8 9.5 42.7 42.3 -
Wroclaw, Poland 105.3 63.6 66.8 57.3 44.1 10.1 42.6 51.8 -
Singapore, Singapore 103.7 73.2 84.2 62.9 97.9 21.8 44.3 43.8 -
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel 101.6 71.6 67.8 78.6 85.5 15.9 43.6 54.4 -
London, United Kingdom 97.1 83.0 53.4 74.7 105.8 16.6 44.1 52.0 -
Izmir, Turkey 95.3 47.5 74.3 82.6 48.5 7.7 26.0 76.0 -
Barcelona, Spain 93.3 73.6 57.9 69.5 68.9 11.1 28.7 73.2 -
Coimbatore, India 92.7 52.1 58.7 83.8 22.6 10.6 53.2 57.9 -
Riga, Latvia 90.9 43.1 61.5 67.1 57.7 13.4 24.0 46.5 -
Bangalore, India 90.1 79.7 48.7 66.0 28.1 8.5 49.7 76.7 -
Krakow (Cracow), Poland 90.0 63.8 64.2 61.1 44.5 12.4 32.0 67.8 -
Ankara, Turkey 88.5 64.8 60.7 63.1 48.2 5.5 38.5 78.5 -
Paris, France 88.1 89.2 45.1 80.7 99.6 17.2 39.5 66.2 -
Budapest, Hungary 86.2 48.0 58.4 54.6 51.2 8.9 35.5 52.1 -
Hyderabad, India 85.0 71.1 58.4 66.8 25.8 6.6 50.5 84.8 -
Banja Luka, Bosnia And Herzegovina 77.7 46.3 66.3 39.4 42.5 11.6 24.6 59.0 -
Chennai, India 77.3 65.5 57.5 65.7 26.7 14.0 40.9 75.3 -
Islamabad, Pakistan 76.9 34.6 56.6 67.2 35.1 11.3 19.2 59.4 -
Minsk, Belarus 76.2 36.4 71.4 50.4 51.7 16.1 30.2 46.3 -
Pune, India 73.2 74.6 52.0 68.8 28.1 11.3 60.9 81.2 -
Istanbul, Turkey 72.7 53.0 57.9 72.2 53.4 10.0 56.6 65.8 -
Buenos Aires, Argentina 70.6 58.7 37.7 79.8 74.8 12.2 45.4 59.1 -
Sofia, Bulgaria 68.8 44.8 51.1 59.5 44.9 9.4 36.3 63.0 -
Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China) 65.2 67.1 82.2 80.6 77.4 36.8 44.6 57.4 -
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 64.9 71.8 24.7 63.0 48.2 9.5 38.9 73.8 -
Turin, Italy 64.5 73.0 36.0 67.6 80.5 11.7 32.5 78.5 -
Milan, Italy 61.9 74.0 47.9 68.6 83.7 18.7 39.4 73.5 -
Tbilisi, Georgia 60.7 26.8 78.6 62.6 40.2 14.4 38.0 65.4 -
Belgrade, Serbia 57.5 40.0 59.4 53.8 45.2 18.2 26.8 60.1 -
Athens, Greece 57.4 45.5 49.5 49.1 70.5 11.3 39.9 58.1 -
Santiago, Chile 55.4 53.1 53.2 61.4 55.0 10.2 46.0 78.8 -
Bucharest, Romania 52.9 39.0 68.7 51.4 44.8 12.8 35.5 76.1 -
Delhi, India 51.5 67.5 41.1 70.3 29.7 16.0 46.4 85.9 -
Almaty, Kazakhstan 51.3 47.2 53.2 65.3 56.8 11.6 40.0 78.7 -
Yerevan, Armenia 50.8 28.1 68.5 48.3 41.4 13.0 26.1 70.6 -
Mexico City, Mexico 49.5 59.2 34.3 65.2 47.1 8.1 48.0 83.4 -
Bangkok, Thailand 46.1 42.4 64.3 86.4 52.1 19.2 48.9 79.4 -
Recife, Brazil 45.8 66.6 19.1 75.3 52.3 9.2 57.8 79.9 -
Curitiba, Brazil 44.2 30.9 36.4 52.8 53.0 18.7 38.5 38.1 -
Amman, Jordan 42.2 39.1 52.2 68.3 62.6 8.4 51.4 80.2 -
Chisinau, Moldova 42.1 23.9 50.3 52.7 34.9 17.2 24.6 57.2 -
Kolkata, India 40.9 58.7 47.3 40.2 26.0 10.8 58.0 82.5 -
Saint Petersburg, Russia 36.6 46.4 56.0 58.3 61.1 16.4 55.0 73.3 -
Bogota, Colombia 35.7 33.5 47.0 64.3 42.8 15.7 45.4 67.5 -
Belo Horizonte, Brazil 35.2 40.7 34.3 60.3 52.4 19.8 51.5 50.5 -
Shanghai, China 32.9 56.0 72.5 58.7 57.1 26.7 42.8 85.7 -
Rome, Italy 27.6 58.1 44.0 57.3 83.8 24.2 45.1 69.4 -
Kiev (Kyiv), Ukraine 22.3 35.9 54.9 45.1 44.5 17.4 34.1 81.6 -
Beirut, Lebanon 20.2 46.8 47.5 70.2 69.9 17.9 41.8 91.6 -
Porto Alegre, Brazil 14.3 41.0 24.9 46.1 54.9 17.2 44.9 65.5 -
Nairobi, Kenya 13.4 30.6 32.5 62.7 54.3 12.4 65.2 69.7 -
Sao Paulo, Brazil 5.6 44.8 26.1 50.8 61.8 16.6 49.2 79.0 -
Manila, Philippines 4.4 37.6 32.3 61.9 46.0 11.3 53.8 94.7 -
Moscow, Russia 4.3 47.7 45.8 48.8 75.7 22.0 52.9 81.6 -
Beijing, China -2.5 53.3 54.4 60.6 53.0 33.1 36.2 97.0 -
Jakarta, Indonesia -4.0 25.0 51.2 64.5 44.7 23.7 50.7 83.0 -
Mumbai, India -11.5 53.8 50.9 60.9 30.7 32.5 70.2 92.7 -
Dhaka, Bangladesh -12.3 34.7 34.6 35.6 40.4 11.9 57.7 94.9 -
Cairo, Egypt -12.5 27.5 39.0 51.1 38.2 10.6 60.3 100.8 -
Karachi, Pakistan -13.3 30.4 20.2 47.1 31.9 14.3 27.2 98.8 -
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -15.6 23.1 48.7 38.9 44.0 19.9 33.4 94.3 -
Tehran, Iran -19.6 31.2 43.0 48.1 48.3 23.6 59.8 85.2 -
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -22.8 37.0 27.4 32.6 61.1 21.9 56.1 77.6 -
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia -39.5 23.4 29.7 27.2 52.6 19.1 36.9 96.7 -
Caracas, Venezuela -65.1 9.7 15.6 41.7 141.4 25.7 32.2 76.5 -